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External hard drive size issue

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merkrath - Jun 15, 2010 at 05:53 PM
xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - Jun 15, 2010 at 05:59 PM
Hello,
i have a 250 gig external hard drive that i can put smaller files on it about 2 gigs in size but when i try to put a bigger file for example a 7 gig file it gives me an error tellin me that the hard drive does not have enough space on it to accept the file. anyone else have this problem or have a solution for it.


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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
Jun 15, 2010 at 05:59 PM
a FAT32 formatted hard drive has a 4 GB limit on file size. Could this be the problem?

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